Children with brain cancer have MRI scans routinely when they are first diagnosed. Professor Peet aims to use vital information from these scans to better predict how aggressive each child’s cancer is likely to be, much sooner and with greater accuracy.

'I wish that no child should have to die from brain cancer'
Professor Peet

Children with the most aggressive tumours could immediately be given the most intensive treatment, which could boost their chances of survival.

And children whose tumours are not so life-threatening could be given less intensive treatment, sparing them from some of the lifelong disabilities that treatment can cause.

This will help children like Joey who was diagnosed with brain cancer when he was just four years old. He battled a gruelling year of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy before beating his cancer, as his dad Darren explains in Joey’s story.